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I'm really hoping this will give WhiteWater World a much needed kick up the bum. There is now no more excuse to keep delaying the planned expansion. This new park is going to be bigger than WhiteWater World on opening even before stage 2. The longer WWW delays the more likely it is that these other parks will reveal these new slides and get in first

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Whats going on? A Laser tag thing gets 6 pages of discussion, and this gets nothing.
Anyway, it looks like a really good park, naturally the things I am most happy about are the tornado alley and bowling alley (Pretty funny, I go start a thread on them and an Aussie park comes through with the goods ) Too bad they won't be coming till later on down the track.....3 parks here now have Tornado Alleys on the drawing board, stop torturing me and open one
One of my favourite features is that Lazy River, it will work well as a transportation system, plus it has some nice little added features like the theming and the wave generator.
But the opening line up are good choices, they all seem to be high capacity rides, and the crowd pleasers. A little observation I made is that the Mammoth Slide is a direct clone of the one at WnW.
The place gives me an excuse to head up to Cairns anyhow (or stop over on the way to Asia)

This new park is going to be bigger than WhiteWater World on opening even before stage 2.

Are you sure on that one? Matching up the attraction counts:
Cave of Waves = Lazy River
Temple of Huey = PIPElines
BRO = 6 Lane Octopus
Rip = Mammoth River Slide
Green Room = Tornado 45
Wiggle Bay & Pipeline Plunge = Play pool & Waterplay Structure
Supertubes = Flowrider I guess
Little Rippers = No equivalent
I dunno if it would give WWW much of a kick in the bum...If WnWs relentless efforts aren't then what will a park 1447km away do?

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Gazza, i think once we see ground breaking it will be something to really get excited about but we have seen concept art in the past which never comes to pass.
If it gets off the ground, I am all for it, as we do head up to cairns every now and again, and this is an excuse to go more often.
Above everything else I think this park allows a little more room if not an opening line up, but they don't look like they're going to muck around with it much.
I'll reserve judgment until i see the block of land they're building on. It will be a real shame if stage one and two take up all available land and leave nothing for further expansion.
Keep an eye on this thread though - it may be quiet now, but wait until they break ground..... then it will go triple platinum.

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Meanwhile, the council will today vote on Paul Freebody’s plans for a $35 million water park at Smithfield, which council officers have recommended not go ahead because of flooding, environmental and planning concerns.

I'm starting to think that no new park of any sort will ever open in Australia. It seems no matter where anything is proposed there's always a minority of people who manage to kill new parks off. Hopefully this one makes it through, it looks like a fantastic little park, and I think would be a real boon for domestic tourism in the area.